Harvests, wildfires, epidemics: How the jet stream has shaped extreme weather in Europe for centuries; a study published in Nature
The theory of a violent invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in Late Prehistory, some 4,200 years ago, is now being questioned
A new interpretation of the runic inscription on the Forsa Ring, provides fresh insights into the Viking Age monetary system
New geological datings place the first European hominids at Orce, in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, 1.3 million years ago
UMA scientists find a natural quicksand trap dated to more than one million years ago in the ‘elephant graveyard’ of Fuente Nueva 3, Orce
According to a new study, the plague may have been a contributing factor to the population collapse in the end of the Neolithic, known as the Neolithic decline, in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe
A 600,000-year-old bone from Notarchirico, Italy, provides the earliest evidence of cave lions in southern Europe
The Dendra panoply, an Ancient Mycenaean armour, has been tested by Marines and pronounced suitable for extended combat
Researchers established a chronology for Dispilio, by combining radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology and information on cosmic particles from Miyake events
The first dating study of Pirro Nord, Italy, traditionally regarded as the oldest archaeological site in western Europe, indicates that it is probably much younger than anticipated
